Today, the Hearst Castle is a major California tourist attraction. Perhaps the best-known event of William Randolph Hearst's very public life was his effort to suppress Citizen Kane, a thinly ...

The Harvard career of William Randolph Hearst '86 who died last month was as turbulent and controversial as his later publishing activities. In three years he left a sufficient mark on the College ...

The Hearst Estate, once home to newspaper scion William Randolph Hearst has sold at auction for $63.1 million. The massive mansion has been on and off the market since 2007, and was asking for $ ...

Explore the life of William Randolph Hearst, who, by the 1930s, controlled a vast media empire, achieving unprecedented power. A man of prodigious appetites, he was the model for Orson Welles’s ...

The Hearst Foundation, Inc. was founded by William Randolph Hearst in 1946. In 1949 Hearst established the California Charities Foundations, later renamed The William Randolph Hearst Foundation.

William Randolph Hearst believed he was not reporting history but was instead creating it. By the end of the 1920s, Hearst owned newspapers in almost every major city, as well as magazines and ...

William Randolph Hearst continued his rise to power and expansion into Hollywood. The model for Citizen Kane, he had a decades-long affair with actress Marion Davies, built an enormous castle at ...